Canadian town left without internet, mobile services after beaver chews through cable

It’s been dubbed a “uniquely Canadian turn of events”.

About 900 residents of Tumbler Ridge, a small community in the foothills of the British Columbia Rockies, were left without internet over the weekend after a beaver chewed through a crucial fibre cable.

Internet provider Telus said it appeared the beaver was digging underground alongside a creek when it came across the cables, which were buried about 1 metre deep and protected by an 11-centimetre conduit.

Upon further inspection — and in what the company described as a “very bizarre and uniquely Canadian turn of events” — workers found evidence the beaver had used material from the cables to build its dam, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

“Just after 4:00am…